Enercon-126 - World's Largest Wind Turbine

The world's largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126, installed near Emden. This has an overall height of 198 m (650 ft) and a diameter of 126 meters (413 ft). Its capacity is rated at 6 MW (although this will be ramped up to 7+ MW), and 20 million kilowatt hours per year, that's enough to power about 5,000 households of four in Europe.

More information at:
http://www.enercon.de/www/en/windblatt.nsf/vwAnzeige/66BD14BABA22BCA2C12573A7...$FILE/WB-0407-en.pdf

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[oracle2world]

5,000 households? That's it? At what cost? Hey, if folks want to LOWER their standard of living, do it on your own dime.

We going to get any video of this thing chopping up birds?

[jointz999]

@oracle2world Birds generally steer clear of such things you might be disappointed to hear. Of course, with your own dime I'm sure you could make it happen.

[Rorg202]

song?

thax

[jointz999]

@Rorg202 Harald Kloser - The Day After Tomorrow

[oracle2world]

@danthemanzizle - hey Einstein, 1 kilowatt = 1.34 horsepower. Your 6 kilowatts = 8 horsepower. But I agree your calculations and those of whoever sells these turbines make about equal sense.

Search on "unep carbon cycle" and check out the graphic. Those 2 skinny lines are mankind's contribution to CO2. Those massively thick lines are everything else. Just the estimated error in eveything else completely swamps mankind's contribution.  And this is from the UN!

[danthemanzizle]

6KW is equiv to 8000HP.. if that was generated by an efficient internal combustion engine would require approximately 12 gallons of fuel per minute or 17280 gallons a day to match! so its either a few dumb birds get nailed once and a while or 345,600 pounds of CO2 among some other more nasty gasses go into the atmosphere each day. a 10 x 10 farm of 100 at 7MW each would prevent 14.2 billion pounds a year of CO2, 1.06 trillion pounds or 480 megatons in 75 years... need more perspective????

[TaviYamato]

a lot more birds die by cars , it is enough to look on the streets :( , poor little animals , I bet that all this NGO's are paid by oil corporations like shell

[oracle2world]

@lautringer1 - yo, speaken sie the king's english hier?

[XploiTee]

@oracle2world Standard of living ? yea it will be best whit Nuclear waste in ur backyard ! wont it ? :S

[lautringer1]

Warum habt Ihr euch nicht "gewehrt", an solche Fragen sollten wir uns langsam gewöhnen.

Das kommt in spätestens 5 Jahren und ich sehe heute schon die Antwort.

Wir hatten 5 "demokratische Zentralratsparteien" zur Auswahl, da konnte ein jeder blind

wählen!

[Zoidode]

@oracle2world

What's bad about 5000 households? The E-126 costs about 10-15 million Euro.

If you run the numbers, you end up at about 10€ per month for electricity... not that bad is it? (including maintainance)

[wullebulle123]

@oracle2world the cost of the enercon e126 is about an 1/80 of the whole energy output it generates in its lifetime

[TheDarkFighter95]

Its The largest Wind Turbine from Enercon..But the Prototype E-100 Will be Bigger

But its only a prototype